curl/RELEASE-NOTES

Curl and libcurl 7.17.1

 Public curl release number:               102
 Releases counted from the very beginning: 128
 Available command line options:           118
 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     143
 Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
 Amount of public web site mirrors:        42
 Number of known libcurl bindings:         36
 Number of contributors:                   572

This release includes the following changes:
 
 o automatically append ";type=<a|i>" when using HTTP proxies for FTP urls
 o improved NSS support

This release includes the following bugfixes:

 o curl-config --protocols now properly reports LDAPS, SCP and SFTP
 o ldapv3 support on Windows
 o ldap builds with the MSVC makefiles
 o no HOME and no key given caused SSH auth failure

This release includes the following known bugs:

 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)

Other curl-related news:

 o 

New curl mirrors:

 o 

This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
advice from friends like these:

 Dan Fandrich, Michal Marek, G<>nter Knauf, Rob Crittenden, Immanuel Gregoire
 
        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
-												start over on 7.17.1

											
										
										
											2007-09-13 17:05:56 -04:00
+								Curl and libcurl 7.17.1
-												working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes

											
										
										
											2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00
-												start over on 7.17.1

											
										
										
											2007-09-13 17:05:56 -04:00
+								 Public curl release number:               102
 								 Releases counted from the very beginning: 128
-												Added --pubkey option to curl and made --key also work for SCP/SFTP,
plus made --pass work on an SSH private key as well.

											
										
										
											2007-03-23 13:59:40 -04:00
+								 Available command line options:           118
-												reality sync

											
										
										
											2007-06-28 06:47:05 -04:00
+								 Available curl_easy_setopt() options:     143
-												Gavrie Philipson's change, updated numbers

											
										
										
											2007-07-06 17:56:42 -04:00
+								 Number of public functions in libcurl:    55
-												http://curl.cheap.co.il is a new mirror in Tel-Aviv, Israel

											
										
										
											2007-09-06 17:38:50 -04:00
+								 Amount of public web site mirrors:        42
-												A brand new binding for SP-Forth was written

											
										
										
											2007-09-09 18:22:45 -04:00
+								 Number of known libcurl bindings:         36
-												Gavrie Philipson's change, updated numbers

											
										
										
											2007-07-06 17:56:42 -04:00
+								 Number of contributors:                   572
-												David Hull made the file: URL parser also accept the somewhat sloppy file
syntax: file:/path. I added test case 203 to verify this.

											
										
										
											2003-10-29 04:53:21 -05:00
-												Armel Asselin made the CURLOPT_PREQUOTE option work fine even when
CURLOPT_NOBODY is set true. PREQUOTE is then run roughly at the same place
in the command sequence as it would have run if there would've been a
transfer.

											
										
										
											2006-08-08 18:56:46 -04:00
+								This release includes the following changes:
-												Armel Asselin separated CA cert verification problems from problems with
reading the (local) CA cert file to let users easier pinpoint the actual
problem. CURLE_SSL_CACERT_BADFILE (77) is the new libcurl error code.

											
										
										
											2006-10-21 07:32:05 -04:00
-												Michal Marek made libcurl automatically append ";type=<a|i>" when using HTTP
proxies for FTP urls.

											
										
										
											2007-09-15 17:14:12 -04:00
+								 o automatically append ";type=<a|i>" when using HTTP proxies for FTP urls
-												Rob Crittenden provided an NSS update with the following highlights:

o It looks for the NSS database first in the environment variable SSL_DIR,
  then in /etc/pki/nssdb, then it initializes with no database if neither of
  those exist.

o If the NSS PKCS#11 libnspsem.so driver is available then PEM files may be
  loaded, including the ca-bundle. If it is not available then only
  certificates already in the NSS database are used.

o Tries to detect whether a file or nickname is being passed in so the right
  thing is done

o Added a bit of code to make the output more like the OpenSSL module,
  including displaying the certificate information when connecting in
  verbose mode

o Improved handling of certificate errors (expired, untrusted, etc)

The libnsspem.so PKCS#11 module is currently only available in Fedora
8/rawhide. Work will be done soon to upstream it. The NSS module will work
with or without it, all that changes is the source of the certificates and
keys.

											
										
										
											2007-09-18 18:21:54 -04:00
+								 o improved NSS support
-												Armel Asselin made the CURLOPT_PREQUOTE option work fine even when
CURLOPT_NOBODY is set true. PREQUOTE is then run roughly at the same place
in the command sequence as it would have run if there would've been a
transfer.

											
										
										
											2006-08-08 18:56:46 -04:00
-												HTTP Digest auth fix on a re-used connection

											
										
										
											2007-07-22 06:17:52 -04:00
+								This release includes the following bugfixes:
-												Added LDAPS, SCP and SFTP to curl-config --protocols. Removed and
fixed some AC_SUBST configure entries.

											
										
										
											2007-09-13 21:56:08 -04:00
+								 o curl-config --protocols now properly reports LDAPS, SCP and SFTP
-												G�nter's ldap fixes

											
										
										
											2007-09-17 16:43:05 -04:00
+								 o ldapv3 support on Windows
 								 o ldap builds with the MSVC makefiles
-												Immanuel pointed out that public key SSH auth failed if no public/private
key was specified and there was no HOME environment variable, and then it
didn't continue to try the other auth methods. Now it will instead try to
get the files id_dsa.pub and id_dsa from the current directory if none of
the two conditions were met.

											
										
										
											2007-09-18 17:14:28 -04:00
+								 o no HOME and no key given caused SSH auth failure
-												HTTP Digest auth fix on a re-used connection

											
										
										
											2007-07-22 06:17:52 -04:00
 								This release includes the following known bugs:
 								 o see docs/KNOWN_BUGS (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/knownbugs.html)
 								Other curl-related news:
-												start over on 7.17.1

											
										
										
											2007-09-13 17:05:56 -04:00
+								 o
-												HTTP Digest auth fix on a re-used connection

											
										
										
											2007-07-22 06:17:52 -04:00
 								New curl mirrors:
-												start over on 7.17.1

											
										
										
											2007-09-13 17:05:56 -04:00
+								 o
-												HTTP Digest auth fix on a re-used connection

											
										
										
											2007-07-22 06:17:52 -04:00
 								This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 								advice from friends like these:
-												Immanuel Gregoire is the man

											
										
										
											2007-09-20 10:02:34 -04:00
+								 Dan Fandrich, Michal Marek, G<>nter Knauf, Rob Crittenden, Immanuel Gregoire
-												start working on 7.16.5...

											
										
										
											2007-07-10 18:07:33 -04:00
-												working draft of the upcoming 7.10.8 release notes

											
										
										
											2003-09-22 17:38:52 -04:00
+								        Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)